Saturday, 6 November 2010

Lying to win

Socialist politician Woolas, whose crooked electoral victory was overturned by an electoral court yesterday, wore a look of genuine puzzlement as press photographers snapped him; he simply couldn't see anything wrong in having lied to win his seat; after all, the entire Labour campaign, all his Leader's speeches and the bulk of his party's electoral literature was based on lies - why shouldn't he add a few personal ones?

Morally, of course, he has a point. Labour couldn't win a dead sardine without lying, so why the fuss about minor, personal lies about an opponent when the whoppers about everything else are perfectly OK? The confusion of Woolas and fellow MPs on this point is understandable. The law is based on a concept known to very few of them, the expectation that MPs will act honourably. The virtue is one completely alien to the modern MP of Woolas' ilk, but is one of our strange quirky old customs I'd personally like to retain.

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Funny isn't it and it certainly isn't party specific: had any of them decency about 400 would have resigned during the expenses scandal...I know most were "within the rules" but sometimes they need to show that the "get it". They still don't.

The process of getting these lying thieving bastards into our courts and punished (ha ha) is all too painfully slow. And what about Lord Paul, Baroness Udin and the other miserable scrote, Bhatia. They, along with 400 other MPs were dishonest as well.

This country is still not purged from their putrescent stink. The process needs to move at a frightening pace - frightening enough to serve as a dire warning to other wanna-be troughers.

The saddest fact of the whole debacle is that many of these people have such a deficiency of morals that they don't even understand what they have done wrong.They think that squeezing and manipulating the rules for their personal benefit is perfectly OK.

I'm inclined to agree with Bill Quango that MPs haven't been all that honourable in the past. Lloyd George is the obvious example. If they were really honourable, they wouldn't need to keep calling each other "honourable". Unless they mean honour among thieves.

Anyway, it is about time they started being honest. The first thing to do would be to increase the salaries and completely abolish expenses.

She further wants the court to share farming equipment at New AllanGrange Farm including three tractors, two new combine harvesters, twoboom sprayers and two engines.

She is also seeking an order compelling Minister Chombo to cede toher shares in the family's 10 companies including Dickest, Hamdinger,Landberry and Track in Security Company.

Mrs Chombo, in her court papers, is also claiming cattle at DartonFarm, shared chicken runs, pigsties, a shop, grinding mill, house,mills, tractors, lorries, six trucks, five of which are non-runners,four trailers (three non-runners) and one truck.

She added that other interests were the Mvurwi Mine, hunting safarilodges in Chiredzi, Hwange, Magunje and Chirundu as well asproperties in South Africa.

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